by beanstalk | Sep 16, 2016 | Adoption, Blog
In May 2016, the Missouri legislature passed HB1599, the Missouri Adoptee Rights Act. This new legislation grants access to original birth certificates for anyone adopted in Missouri between 1941 and 1986. This is a wonderful opportunity for adoptees to learn more...
by beanstalk | Jun 17, 2016 | Adoption, Blog
Advocacy Happenings: The Missouri Adoptee Rights Act In May, the Missouri legislature passed HB1599, the Missouri Adoptee Rights Act, granting Missourians who were adopted between 1941 and 1986 access to their original birth certificates. While this law is a wonderful...
by beanstalk | Mar 25, 2016 | Adoption, Blog
By Meg Roetta, MSW, LMSW Grief and loss is an abstract term that we tend to associate with death. Grief makes us uncomfortable; we can’t fix or make it all better. So our society tries to confine it into steps, into a process and organize it into the perfect box that...
by beanstalk | Feb 12, 2016 | Adoption, Blog
Have you completed your family through in vitro fertilization (IVF)? Do you have frozen embryos in storage from those procedures? There are currently over 600,000 frozen embryos in storage in the United States. If you are one of the families with these embryos, you...
by beanstalk | Dec 10, 2015 | Adoption, Blog, pregnancy services
“Thank you so much, LFCS, for helping us with the most precious gift in the world!” Little Jake found a forever loving home, because of friends like you! Jake’s birth parents knew they were not in a position to raise a child and had turned to LFCS to find a loving...
